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Jerusalem: City of Heaven, City of Blood, City of Ashes

This is the fifth of fifteen articles in CDLS’ Spotlight On… series, exploring culture and society around the world. Day 1: Cyprus Day 2: North Korea Day 3: India Day 4: Venezuela I’m not particularly sure why my articles this week seem to have a religious focus. I didn’t intend for them to turn out this way but they […]

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Venezuela: Context, Perception & Chavez

This is the fourth of fifteen articles in CDLS’ Spotlight On… series, exploring culture and society around the world. Day 1: Cyprus Day 2: North Korea Day 3: India [Caution: very long article ahead] Let’s move away from Asia for a bit and shift our focus to somewhere closer to home. This is something that […]

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East Meets West: Culture, India & Women

This is the third of fifteen articles in CDLS’ “Spotlight On…” series, exploring culture and society around the world. Day 1: Cyprus Day 2: North Korea First off, I want to say thanks for all the comments, likes and discussion generated from my post on North Korea. I’m glad you all liked it and apparently, […]

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Great Expectations: The North Korean Bubble

This is the 2nd of fifteen articles in CDLS’ ‘Spotlight On…’ series Previous : Cyprus Quick disclaimer here: I didn’t mean for this article to get as long as it did. It sort of ran away from me. If you ask Colin, he will tell you that I have been dying to post an article on North Korea […]

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Cyprus, Suddenly Relevant

For the next several weeks, I’m going to be doing a spotlight series where I talk about different countries and the problems they are currently facing. I may do several other articles to break it up and add some variety, but for the most part this is what I’m going to be focusing on for […]

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